You’re itching to test drive an iOS application, but the lack of a free trial, the limited screenshots, and no demo videos are holding you back from pulling the trigger on a purchase. Such hurdles could soon be toppled with a new service called the Pieceable Viewer. Parent company Pieceable, which is working on a [...]
At last, the face has taken control of Facebook–well, the mouth part, at least. Once the Firefox fans at Firesay demonstrated that hands-free browsing was possible, it was only a matter of time before the technology was co-opted by the Facebook hive mind. The original Firesay was a Firefox extension that allowed for Google searching, [...]
More people viewed video ads at Hulu than at any other Web site last month, according to stats released yesterday by ComScore. Out of the 4.3 billion video ads that U.S. Internet users watched in March, 1.2 billion of those were at Hulu, making it the top site for video ad impressions for the month. [...]
Google Docs users can now finally see page breaks in their documents, thanks to the latest update rolled out yesterday by the search giant. Rather than display your documents as one long compact stream, the new pagination option visually shows each separate page, mimicking the traditional page view long found in Microsoft Word and other [...]
Search marketing was already a big business, but it’s poised for even more growth this year, according to Econsultancy’s State of Search Marketing Report, published with the not-for-profit Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization. According to the report, search marketing hit $16.6 billion in North America in 2010, up 14 percent compared with 2009. This year, [...]
Apple is the latest in a series of Web browser makers to add a new privacy feature that keeps online advertising networks and other tracking tools from monitoring user activity. According to The Wall Street Journal, the latest developer preview of Apple’s Mac OS X 10.7, codenamed “Lion,” sports a version of Safari with a [...]
A trio of gaming sites has been caught getting users to vote stories into popularity on social-news site Reddit. The effort, which had been run by a Reddit user called “MasterOfHyrule,” made use of multiple accounts to submit, vote, and comment on stories from gaming sites GamePro, G4TV, and GamrFeed. Those stories would then have [...]
Facebook users ready to move from a personal profile to a business page can now make the switch through a new process offered by the company. Sparing people from the chore of building a business page from scratch, Facebook’s Profile To Business Page Migration tool can provide a head start by just converting an existing [...]
Update at 12:30 p.m. PT: Google claims CNN’s story to be speculative. A company representative said “we are in fact not working on developing an app with these capabilities.” Update at 4:30 p.m. PT: CNN is now countering Google’s claims, saying it stands by the original piece. An updated version of our story follows. Google [...]
Mozilla lifted the lid off Firefox for Android earlier this week, but what’s the big deal? Oh, just that this is Firefox’s most important mobile appearance since browser-maker Mozilla began its mobile project, notably as the Minimo browser for Windows Mobile 5 and 6, and later as Fennec for Windows Mobile 6. (Mozilla later dropped [...]